obstinate - Story 94284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in her inbox, a digital landmine. "David Carter - Friend Request." Her stomach twisted. She considered deleting the entire email account. Instead, she stared at the screen, the cursor blinking like a malevolent eye. She pictured his face, the smug smirk, the way he would belittle her in front of the others. She took a deep breath. She slammed her hand down on the table. She'd been doing well. Why did he have to show up now? The world had better things to be doing.

Emotion: obstinate

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 0.25 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 3.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion obstinate. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 obstinate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the obstinate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the obstinate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.642
`la`	0.547
`de`	0.536
`either`	0.498
`-`	0.433

Suppressed:

`竟然`	-0.354
`终于`	-0.353
`难以`	-0.353
`原来`	-0.351
`previously`	-0.349